Fruit-crushing machine



sept. 21,, 1926. 1,600,882 l A. -JACOBSON I FRUIT. RUsHING MACHINE I 4Filed Nov. 10, 1925 WZTTORNEY ,l Y

i crushing fruit and'vegetable bodiesl for thev Patented sept. 21,v1926.

" 'l'Jlarrl-l) STATES? PArEN-T carica.' 7

ANDREW saconson, or Los mantas, cALrroaNm.

` raum-ennesima 1 Appllicationledvlovemb'er 10, 1825. Serial No. 68,140.i.

This invention relates to apparatus for purpose of extracting their meatjuices.

An object is to provide a Simp e, rugged and easily operable machinewhereby the fruit body may be first automaticallyv severed-in halves andeach halfthen subjected to a crushing action and the waste productejected from the machine by the.

crushing means. v j

An object is to provide an automatic cornpensating means for handlingoranges, for instance, of reasonable variation in a graded run wit-houtadjustment of the machine. v

' Other ob'ects and advantages will be made mani est in the followingspecification of apparatus embodying the invention; yit being understoodthatvariations, modifications and adaptations may be resorted to vwithin the scope and spirit of the invention.

Figure 1 is an elevation and sectional view.

Figure 2 is a plan and sectional view.l Figure 3l is a verticalcross-section. Figure 4c is a side elevation and section of a modifiedform ofthe device. v

The invention com rises a cutting means to halve an orange or othervegetable or fruit) and means for crushing out the juice, and includes alsuitable feed chute 2 for a single row of fruit F. Disposed on andperpendicular to the axis of this chute 4is a rotary cutter .having apartition forminghub 3 on. a shaft 4. The cutter has a plurality ofradial cutting knives 5v with'deeply in- .curved cutting edges 6 tooverhook the nearest fruit F coming down the chute 2 and restingmomentarily against a blunt nose part 3 of the hub between the knives.5.

On the outer ends of theknives are curved strips 7 for the purpose ofseparating or warding back the second orange from the i one at thecutter so that only one fruit will be caught and cut at a time. Eachward 7 is adjustable by a screw 8 to be effective on vfruit of dilierentgrade runs.

l At the ylower end of the chute 2 is a -ixed platen 10 having aT-shaped slot to clear the sweeping knives with the wide wards 7. Theplaten has a curved seat 11 cooperatin with the nose parts '3a of thehub 3t0 hol anv orange steady until a cutter knife 5 passes down throughit and the platen.

The knives are wedge-shaped in cross-section for the purpose ofthrusting the halves ofthe orange laterally and downward into a strongscreen or sieve 13 having` its upper end pivoted at 111 on the sides ofthe platen 10, whose end- 1s rovided with opposite deelevitles 1()a fort rowing oil the orange halves which -pass down into channels 13a 1n thesides of the screen 13. These channels To prevent the fruit halves fromturning over` guide fingers 18 are mounted at the -intake ends of thechambers or channels 1'3 and as the halves pass from the lingers theylrims lfL-lh and gradually pressed down into the-channels and s ueezedand ythen vcarried around to the dischar e end. and

' are immediately engaged by the crushing ejected. -The wall structure othe screen g5 is slotted at 13 to clearthe knives and lits close up tothe diverting hub .3 of the cutter. The screen is hung above asuitablepan 20 which catches the juice and isv forced .up

by and supported on a strong spring 21' which allows for depressionofthe screen when large size fruit in a graded lrun pass under thecrushing roller rims.

Sera ing iingers 22 clean the-rimsas they leave t e channels in thescreen. v

Fi re 4 shows crushin rims 16 as dispose immediately at the sides of therotary cutter hub 3. i l

Any suitable means may be `employed'for driving the rotating parts andas here shown the s'hatts I1-17 are intergeared at 23, and

hand or other and crank 25.

The pan 20 is removably -mounted as to the frame parts. l.

The invention claimed is: 1. A fruit crusher including a segmentalscreen having channels, crushing rims running in the channels,hook-edgechopping 4A which supports the various power is applied-by belt241 9i? means vfor halving the fruitfbody.A into the channels, andmeans-for hol ng the g .whole fruit centrally to thejchopping means.

passin between the channels and afruit support t rough whichtheA-cutterknives ass.

' whole f fruit centrally the, cutter lade,

3. A yfruit crusher including a screen aving channels, crushing means..running'in the channels, a'rotary cutter having radial blades to halvethe fruit bodies vvas t ey into. the channels, and means for holdin theath. -y p 4.. A fruit crushing apparatus including a. p screen `havinseparate channels-,for fruit in thechanhalves, crushlng meaner .thecrushing nels, and means inde ndent o means for, halving t e fruitbodies before ass into the channels; said; screen be# the'ingyyieldinglymounted so as to provide for operation ondifferent sizesof bodies and a stationary table for holding while it. f

i is-divided v v 5..' A fruit cruSher-includinga rotary .cut-

1 eo I, .chute leading to' the'plane of the A meansthrough which saidknives sweep and l y a feed ter'having'a series of radial knives,

knives PES5 ' f Leonesa- I for holdinguthe fruit so as to be daknives,chans find ves metrically cutA bythe sweeping nels. for receiving thehalves oi' the bod crushing means independent of the and running in thechannels for drawing ,y

along and crushing .'th'ehalves therein.

6. In av machine for halvingl-and then"- crushing spherical fruitbodies, a stationary platen on Iwhich,anindividual fruit is supported, acutter sweepingthrough the platen to halve the fruit thereon, .means tofeed'. iruit to the laten, a screen device having separated pat sfortherespective halves of the cut vfruit', and :roller means operativein the screen to crush the fruit.

' '7. In a machine forihalving and. theh crushing sphericalfruit bodies,a stationary `platen on which an individual'fruit is sup:

to "halve the fruit thereon, means for feeding fruitto. the platen, asegmental, internally orted, a cutter sweeping through the platen andlongitudinally concaved trough having a perforated bottom, and crushingroller Vmeans extending into. and lonA tudinallyf.

along the com :ave voff-the trougz tocrush. y'

fruit therein.y

8;.;A machine of claim'7, and'having means forguidingl the the characterset for-th in halves in proper position from the cutter tothe troughand-crushing means.

ANDREW A.Lmosoit

